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Trump says he will do ‘something’ about homelessness
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press President Donald Trump began a California visit on Tuesday, saying he will do “something” about homelessness but offering no specifics beyond the mention of creating...
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LA considers limits on where homeless can camp
CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press A proposal to greatly restrict where homeless people may camp in public places around Los Angeles drew impassioned protest Tuesday at a City Council meeting from...
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Los Angeles joins court fight on where homeless can sleep
CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press Los Angeles has joined an effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision that restricts efforts to bar homeless people from sleeping on sidewalks in...
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EPA: California homelessness causing poor water quality
JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer California is failing to protect its waters from pollution, partly because of a worsening problem with homelessness in large cities such as Los Angeles and San...
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Westside Together – The Reality of Food Insecurity
By Darci Niva, Coalition Director of Westside Coalition Food insecurity is a reality, even on the Westside. Food insecurity means is “limited, uncertain, or inconsistent access to the quality and...
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Fed-up San Francisco neighbors use rocks to block homeless
OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press A group of San Francisco neighbors said they had to do something to make their street safe. Their answer? Some giant rocks. Fed up with what they see as the city’s...
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Mar Vista hears transformational stories
United Way of Greater Los Angeles and Stories From the Frontline’s storytelling event brought hund Continue reading Mar Vista hears transformational stories at Santa Monica Daily Press.
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LA City Council member proposes housing homeless residents in existing units
The Los Angeles City Council member representing Venice introduced legislation Wednesday to expand two programs that have quickly housed thousands of people experiencing homelessness. Councilmember...
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California voters may be asked to steer homeless to services
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press California voters could decide next year whether to create new county courts to steer homeless people to mental health and drug addiction treatment programs....
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Your Column Here – Affordable Housing: California’s State of Emergency
By: Ray Tse and Rebekah Hong Graduate Students at USC’s School of Social Work A state of emergency. Four daunting words that should catch the attention of our state. On Wednesday, September 25, 2019,...
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Homeless deaths soar both locally and countywide
Pastor Ron Hooks stood in Reed Park Sunday afternoon, delivering the closing prayer in a memorial service honoring homeless individuals who died during the past year. Behind the roughly 30 mourners...
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St. Joseph Center receives Bezos Day 1 Families Fund grant to help solve...
St. Joseph Center, a leading provider of services for families and indi-viduals experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, announced Thursday that it has been selected to receive a $5 million grant...
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Young authors look to help local homeless
When Storey Wertheimer joined her school’s Speech and Debate Team four years ago as a freshman in high school, she had no idea it would one day help her become a published author and advocate for the...
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County develops action plan for homelessness prevention
Los Angeles County has developed a homelessness prevention action plan based on predictive modeling research that can identify residents at high risk of becoming homeless. The new predictive model,...
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Supreme Court won’t revive homeless camping ban in Idaho
Associated Press The Supreme Court will not review an appellate decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on the streets. The justices on Monday did not comment as...
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Hair grabbing assault
On December 11, 2019, at 11 am, Officers responded to the area of 800 Pico to handle an assault call. A female subject and her children were walking on the sidewalk when a male subject walked past her...
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Malibu Invites Community Members to Volunteer for the Annual Homeless Count
The City of Malibu seeks community volunteers to assist with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) annual Homeless Count on January 22, 2020, 7 to 10 a.m. when thousands of volunteers...
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Homeless women who took over California home gain support
TERENCE CHEA and JULIET WILLIAMS Associated Press Some California lawmakers said they support a group of homeless women who have been illegally living in a vacant three-bedroom house since November,...
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Judge orders homeless women to leave house they’re occupying
JANIE HAR Associated Press Homeless women who are illegally occupying a house in the expensive San Francisco Bay Area do not have the right to stay and must leave within five days, a judge ruled...
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Homeless find help at the Write Place
From family literacy to technology education, the Santa Monica Public Library has always sought to provide programs that could help local residents tackle any of the challenges that life throws at...
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